Any number of things could go wrong to throw a wrench in the plans, but for now, UFC President Dana White is promising a legit super fight by year’s end.

The UFC’s most prominent champions and pay-per-view draws – welterweight Georges St-Pierre, middleweight Anderson Silva and light heavyweight Jon Jones – are all in the running for one of the two spots, White said.

Each titleholder, though, first has another fight on the horizon; St-Pierre meets Nick Diaz next month at UFC 159, Jones meet rival “TUF 17″ coach Chael Sonnen in April, and Silva is expected to meet Chris Weidman at a UFC event on Fourth of July weekend.

But barring any upsets, the stars could align for a long-awaited – and ridiculously lucrative – cross-division super fight.

“GSP is going to defend his title against Nick Diaz, Anderson Silva will defend his title this summer, and before the end of this year, we will see a super fight with either GSP and Anderson Silva, or Anderson Silva and Jon Jones,” White said on Friday. “One of them is coming.”

White has long hinted at the possibility – just this week he said Silva vs. Jones is a fight “we have to make” – though this latest proclamation is his most definitive statement yet.

Each candidate has an impressive body of work. St-Pierre (23-2 MMA, 17-2 UFC), 31, has won 10 consecutive fights with seven straight title defenses. Jones (17-1 MMA, 11-1 UFC), 25, has won eight straight, and his past five have all come over former UFC champions. And 37-year-old Silva (33-4 MMA, 16-0 UFC) is in unchartered territory with 16 consecutive UFC wins and 10 straight title defenses.

A matchup between two of them would do big business for the UFC, which is why White suggested it could take place in a major venue. To date, the UFC has done just one stadium show: UFC 129, which shattered attendance (55,724) and gate ($12 million) records in 2011.

The UFC hasn’t nailed a specific venue for the St-Pierre-Silva or Jones-Silva super fight, but he mentioned a few possibilities.

“If we end up doing this super fight with Anderson Silva and GSP, it will be in a big arena somewhere,” he said. “It will either be in Vegas, either our here in Los Angeles, it could be in Texas, it could be Canada, or it could be in Brazil.”

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